The BC Liberals have taken quite a bit of heat on their now failed promise to have five export facilities operational by 2020, and rightly so, because before Friday not one LNG export facility had been completely green-lit.

I say before Friday because that’s when the government announced that the parent company behind Woodfibre LNG, a small export facility in Howe Sound, had approved an investment decision in it’s $1.6B facility.

I caught up with Natural Gas Minister Rich Coleman to discuss more about this project. Watch as he gives us the state of LNG in our province.

While he’s optimistic, it's a very competitive market with low prices and small margins, and I worry Canada’s regulations and investment climate due to carbon taxes, will scare off investment, sending those dollars south of the border or to Australia where they have no carbon taxes.

The Woodfibre investment is great news, but will more dollars follow before May 2017 and help the BC Liberals win another election?

New Delhi, India, has just been named as the worst air polluted capital of any country in the world… Even worse than Beijing!?!… Would love to see any arguments against shipping Canadian LNG to them to clean up their deadly air…

Until a party other than the NDP manage to make any headway for themselves in BC , as you say Christopher, Clark’s liberal’s will retain their ‘baked in’ advantage. I don’t think Christie is bad enough or anyone is bored enough with her, for any kind of protest vote. That hard lesson of allowing the NDP in to get the conservatives out, is still sharp in the minds of any westerner. No one wants to see the NDP ruin BC the way Notely did in Alberta.

Fingers crossed for LNG in BC. Rich Coleman sounds very positive, and sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. Its been so long getting anything done anywhere, that I will believe it when I see it. Sounds great though. I applaud the Squamish band and can only hope other bands follow suit.

Good for the Clark government! Long, long overdue…. Now watch the crazies in B.C. start bitching because our gas is being shipped to China and India to clean up their air pollution… Illogical of course but that has never stopped them before…